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Denise D.B1Kwiziq community member

I am always having trouble in the placement of “toujours”. I don’t get the placement in “ elle trouvait toujours”. My brain sees this as backward.

And yet sometimes I see the placement in the same order as in English. For example, in the last sentence, “I have always wanted.....” this is exactly as it would be in English. Any tips for me to figure out where to place “toujours” in a sentence?

Asked 6 years ago

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Patrick R.A0Kwiziq community member

Does this mean that these examples are correct:Un lingot rouge. Un très rouge lingot. Un lingot incroyablement très rouge.

Asked 8 years ago

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Jennifer C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

I am giving you the keys so that you can come in versus I am calling you so that you can come?In the first sentence puisses entrer is used, in the second viennes with the can understood. Is it a general rule that can is as it were rolled into the subjunctive unless a physical possibility is being discussed?

Asked 8 years ago

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Jozef W.A0Kwiziq community member

How do you say you are forty in French

Asked 6 years ago

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Jimmy J.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

, I think I might be starting to understand. Thank you for the repetition.

Asked 7 years ago

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Mouse K.A1Kwiziq community member

Vous n'avez plus de pommes à la maison - why isn’t it des pommes here if there are multiple apples?

Asked 6 years ago

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J. L.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

EN famille vs AVEC famille vs AVEC VOTRE famille.

Did some reading and it seems that if you are talking about 'YOUR own family' you use EN FAMILLE.. if the activity excluded anyone BUT family. If you are talking about someone else's family or using a possessive pronoun (he ate with HIS family=AVEC sa famille/he ate with the Jones family = avec la famille Jones/I ate with (my) family= j'ai mange en famille. If this is correct why then did Monsieur Dulac not say "Alors, je vous souhaite un bon weekend avec ta famille". Is it because this interpretation is "a good family weekend"; a compound noun with EN; rather than "a good weekend with family". Or is my reading /premise wrong?

Asked 2 years ago

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